On this week’s episode, the critics discuss the Academy Awards: a four-hour spectacle of celebrity blunders and hosting gags (sponsored by Samsung). Next the gabbers welcome Slate’s own Mike Pesca to discuss Caitlin Flanagan’s Atlantic cover story “The Dark Power of Fraternities.” Can Pesca, an Alpha Epsilon Pi brother, shed light on the appeal of frat culture given Flanagan’s findings? And finally, the critics turn to “normcore,” fashion’s latest anti-aesthetic, as defined by Fiona Duncan on the Cut. Is the sartorial pendulum swinging away from individualization—from all things bespoke, personalized, and handcrafted—and toward mass-produced, anonymous basics?